Most people think depression lives only in the brain.
But the truth is – it gets stored in the room too.
Here’s how it works:
When you’re in pain, your brain 🧠 constantly scans for context.
Where am I? What’s around me?
And over time, it starts linking the sights 👀, smells, even the light in the room to that pain.
The brain loves patterns.
So every time you wake up in that same bed, see that same ceiling –
It doesn’t just remember you’re depressed.
It prepares for it.

Your environment becomes a trigger.
Not because it’s toxic –
But because your brain thinks it’s being helpful:
“Oh, we’re here again. Let me load the same emotional script.”
And that script? It’s heavy. It’s automatic.
You don’t even notice it running.

Now, change the environment –
A new bed, new air, new view –
And suddenly, your brain loses the pattern.
It can’t autopilot the same reaction.
That gap, that confusion –
It’s your opening 😌

That’s why travel matters⛺️
Not because it fixes you.
But because it breaks the feedback loop between your surroundings and your suffering.
And that disruption –
It’s a chance to feel different, even for a moment.
And a moment is enough to begin.